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Q&A: Dennis Urbaniak, Vice President, Diabetes at Sanofi U.S.
The head of the Diabetes team at Sanofi U.S. discusses lessons learned from hosting an open design competition to create easy-to-use disease-management apps.
By Reena Jana | November 16, 2011 -- 08:56 GMT (00:56 PST) | Topic: Innovation
Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi U.S. announced the winner of its U.S. Innovation Challenge: Data Design Diabetes on November 14, which also happened to be World Diabetes Day. The winning concept was Ginger.io, a mobile-device app that analyzes a user's location and communication habits to track patterns and offer suggestions for improving health-related behavior. And along with the announcement came some valuable learnings on Sanofi's part, in terms of hosting an open design competition to scope out viable new product ideas. These lessons could apply to other corporations in the healthcare arena considering doing the same.
Dennis Urbaniak, Vice President, Diabetes at Sanofi U.S. (and previously the company's Vice President of Innovation and New Customer Channels) was one of the seven judges of Data Design Diabetes. I spoke with him about the power of design in creating new patient tools to help manage chronic diseases, as well as how the competition fits into the overall innovation strategy at Sanofi. Here's our edited conversation.
SmartPlanet: How did Sanofi first become inspired to explore design as part of a strategy to help create new interactive disease-management products for diabetes patients?
We're in the process of evolving our focus on being a total diabetes solution company. We have a long heritage in various innovation treatments. On a global level, the company made a commitment to broaden our focus because of the scope of diabetes. We saw that there's a need for comprehensive treatment. We wanted to look beyond the drug. We asked, what do people living with diabetes need to be more successful in managing the disease in day to day life? What tools do they need to help make decisions regarding their health?
So we looked at other industries to see how we could improve the experience of people living diabetes, beyond the drug. The importance of design really came through.
SP: Sanofi has created diabetes iPhone apps before, correct? Why focus again on apps for the design challenge?
We've gone down this path before in a small way, internally. We developed our Go Meals app. We saw a very strong response from doctors and patients. It's simple to use, and has been one of the App Store's most downloaded apps in the health category. But then the diabetes team here started looking at the intersection of technology, data, and information around the management of diabetes as well as the need to keep things simple.
Then we had the opportunity to connect with the team from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and learn about their health data initiative, we thought, this would be a great forum to work with open data sources and look to creative developers. So this led us to the design challenge, which we only announced in June.
We've been very happy about the speed with which we've been able to get this challenge up and down. We've also been very happy about the input we've gotten not only from the finalists, but also the broad variety of the many potential solutions we saw from all the entrants, too.
SP: Innovation and design experts often cite contests as efficient ways of discovering and encouraging inventive thinking. Why was hosting a competition around diabetes-management an appropriate match?
Because of the scope and prevalence of diabetes in the U.S., we have been spending lots of time with people living with diabetes, online and offline. We've seen significant gaps of what people need in terms of solutions and tools to help manage the disease. But we know from our work that there are many people doing a great job managing diabetes and are living successful lives. So the right tools can make a real difference.
What was interesting was that because this was focused through the developer community, we were able to work with people outside of the healthcare arena--and that included people who may not even have known anything about diabetes. We shared with them facts about the rate of increase in diabetes and what a significant crisis this is, as well as individual stories of people struggling to find simple disease-management tools to help them. This appealed to a broad range of developers. They seemed to really take to heart the idea that they could make a difference in a lot of people's lives, on a large scale.
SP: What lessons did your team at Sanofi learn from hosting Data Design Diabetes? Are there any design-competition tips you can give to other corporations in the healthcare arena?
We definitely learned a lot. We're still learning. This is one phase. The idea was to appeal to a different audience of collaborators, to see how they can bring forward different solutions.
We talk a lot about external innovation in science, which is important. But in some ways it may be more important on the commercial side, in terms of bringing in ideas that can scale. We saw solutions that we could never have come up with on our own. I think this resulted in better quality product.
As far as tips to other companies considering a similar design challenge, I would say you need to be clear of your role and your expectations. As a company, be transparent from beginning. We made it clear that we're a total diabetes company, committed to bring forward a full range of solutions from the start.
I would also advise to be open to what comes in. It was tough, though, to try to make decisions on finalists and winners. We had some great projects, and we will look at ways to continue to work with the entrants.
SP: How does the winning product, Ginger.io, exemplify the power of design in disease management?
The heart of the challenge was to design a data-driven product that could make a significant change in how someone lives with diabetes. It had to be human-centered, or simple and easy to integrate into a user's lifestyle.
That Ginger.io passively uses data--the user doesn't have to enter information--is incredibly interesting. There are few sophisticated examples of passive data-usage in the market today. Also, the concept demonstrated lots of potential to benefit people living with diabetes. From a design point of view, being able to engage with real people is very important! And of course, it's a product that can scale.
SP: Can Ginger.io serve as a model for other Sanofi products that could potentially help patients fighting other illnesses?
I think it absolutely can. We wanted to start with a targeted initiative with a real issue. This concept could quickly be applied to other chronic disease management, such as multiple sclerosis. There is lots of potential.
Right now, we definitely plan to do more challenges. We are still sifting through learnings and asking, how can we do a better job at this? How can we be more effective? My team has a very strong desire to work with external partners in this way. It's important to note that the developers drove it; the entrants met timelines with such high quality. As far as timeframe for another design challenge, well, we don't know yet. But I can say that we're very anxious to move ahead.
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The 10th Podcast – and excited about the future!
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Q: How to trigger an action from a Typescript class containing a form only when one certain field of the form is modified? I have a Typescript class containing the code executed after the submission of modifications of some fields of a form. I was asked to program the deconnection of the user after he has submitted the modification of his email address.
The line of code doing so is
this.keycloak.logout().then(() => this.keycloak.clearToken())

But if I add this sole line, without control, it deconnects whatever the field modified
export class MonProfilComponent implements OnInit {
  form!: FormGroup;
  //....
  donneePersonnelle!: DonneePersonnelle;

  /**
  * Constructor
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    private monService: MonService,
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     this.form = new FormGroup(
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        phoneNumber: new FormControl('', [
        ...
        ...
       ]),
        emailAddress: new FormControl('', Validators.required)
      });
     }

async ngOnInit(): Promise<void> {
   //method that fills the form with the data already in database
   this.monService
     .obtenirMesInformationsPersonnelles()
     .subscribe((resultat) => {
    ...
   )}
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  submit() {
    this.donneePersonnelle = new DonneePersonnelle();

    this.donneePersonnelle.emailAddress =
    this.form.controls['emailAdress'].value;

    this.donneePersonnelle.phoneNumber =
    this.form.controls['phoneNumber'].value;

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  }
}

I tried
 if (this.form.controls['emailAddress'].valueChanges {
  this.keycloak.logout().then(() => this.keycloak.clearToken())
 }

But the result is not what I expected

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Kenyon Bookstore to Temporarily Relocate
By Office of Communications on May 17, 2017
After the Village Market moves to its new location on Chase Avenue in June, workers will prepare the vacated space at the north end of Farr Hall for the Kenyon Bookstore to occupy temporarily.
Village of Gambier Revitalization
By Office of Communications on March 21, 2016
The revitalization of the village of Gambier in the spirit of the 2020 Strategic Plan is on track to begin this summer, pending the approval of construction plans by the Kenyon College Board of Trustees and village of Gambier officials
Gambier Grill Demolition
The razing of the building that housed the Gambier Grill is scheduled for this week, pending the approval of a demolition permit by the village of Gambier.
Gambier Grill Update
By Office of Communications on February 24, 2016
On Sunday, Feb. 21, the Gambier Grill closed its doors for the last time. Given concerns about the Grill and the plans for a new bar/restaurant in Gambier, President Sean Decatur has provided more context on how we arrived at this point and our vision for the future. The College received official notice of the Grill's closure on Monday afternoon and a closing announcement is available in addition to the President's letter.

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What diagnosis does Latour make of contemporary religion?
Why is it that Latour thinks, contrary to what we might expect, that secular moderns think of religion as 'rational'?
Why does this result in (what Latour calls) belief in 'the crossed-out God'?
And why does this drive Latour to think that (however paradoxical it might seem) secular modernity is undergirded by a form of religious fundamentalism?
If we want an alternative understanding of religion, why do we need to start with an 'empirical site'?
How does that 'empirical site' bring us to 'religion as a mode of existence'?
The presentation of 'religion as a mode of existence' that I've offered in various posts above remains close to the technical nomenclature of Latour's own system. For some, this nomenclature is too technical, too self-referential, too meta-narratival… or maybe just too much. Are you fed up with [REL], [DC] and talk of 'crossings' yet? Perhaps you are. But the bigger problem is that such technical nomenclature runs the risk of abstraction.
Even to a casual observer, 'abstraction' is not a criticism to which Latour's system should be vulnerable. It would be out of step with the very telos of a mode of existence which, as has been demonstrated above, is only meaningful insofar as it is constructed by agents operating within the pluralist ontological landscape of the common world.
So the question must be asked: what is the occurrence of [REL] in the world? Or, to put it another way, what is the world-historical institution of [REL]?
This is a very significant question. I'll just lay out a few preliminary thoughts here and in a subsequent post.
With the question of the world-historical institution of [REL], a tension begins to play out within Latour's account. For an initial response to this question would suggest that [REL] is found (virtually) nowhere in the world. The Religion of the Moderns, that is, the [DC:REL] crossing, has become ubiquitous. Or, to use the language of the Inquiry, the transmogrification of religion-as-subsistence into religion-as-substance has rendered [REL] almost impossible to detect and enunciate in the contemporary public space.
Latour frequently figures this situation in terms of the awkwardness of religious speech. Hence the title of his key work on [REL]: Rejoicing, or the Torments of Religious Speech. The emphasis on corrupted 'speech' should not be surprising to us: after all, both forms of religion have been characterised by their management of an original utterance (in the case of the Religion of the Moderns this management was enacted by the stale procedures of rationalization and derationalization; in the case of [REL] by the faithful innovation of reprise). The burden of Modernity, then, is that it has 'turned the logos into a substance, one that moreover has the strange particularity of being endowed with speech to boot' (Rejoicing, p.133). Latour has spoken of his own personal Catholic faith as being infected by this same burden. He finds that his prayers are 'weighted with lead' (Rejoicing, p.1). Although he regularly attends Mass, he finds himself incapable of describing 'what I am doing there' – even, he claims, to his own children (Latour, Thou Shallt Not Freeze-Frame, or How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate, 2005, p.127). And when he does attempt to register his religious experience in words, the hegemony of the substance metaphysic within which he is required to operate renders his account quite literally 'meaningless' (Rejoicing, p.2). Latour's own life bears witness to the drag exerted upon religious speech by Modernity.
In what space, then, might [REL] by articulated? It is at this point that the tension begins to arise. To begin with, Latour intimates that if [REL] is so dispersed, obscured or even absent in the world, then it will need to be intentionally activated in some way. And he categorises his own writing on religion as a vehicle of this activation. Thus, the stated aim of Rejoicing is that by its own textual activity it will achieve the 're-activation' of reprise that is necessary in order to generate the value of presence (Rejoicing, p.128). In addition, a number of his writings on religion unashamedly describe themselves as having sermonic form, in the sense that they metaphorically posit a congregation (readership) to whom, through the ministration of the Word (Latour's own writing), an authentically religious experience is mediated. Thus, the value of being brought-into-presence is quite literally performed by the text, 'today, as the hic et nunc, for you as listeners, composing now, because of my unusual manner speaking, a gathering of persons, those who receive the present of presence' (Latour, Thou Shallt Not Take the Lord's Name in Vain, 2001, p.226).
Claims like this expose Latour to the charge of pre-orientation. This would suggest that Latour's achievement (whether he realises it or not) is in fact nothing more than the retrofitting of a religious experience that he himself has designated a priori as normative. As a consequence, in enunciating [REL], Latour is accused of merely providing a post-empirical and autobiographically delimited version of the religion of the Moderns, and not one that can be grounded world-historically. Terence Blake has articulated this point very clearly on his blog.
This charge of pre-orientation must be offset, however, by the increasingly tendency of Latour's writing on [REL] to be framed in terms of the doctrines and traditions of the Christian religion. This tendency becomes particularly apparent in the Gifford Lectures which he delivered in 2013 and in his current book Face à Gaïa.
By means of this framing, Latour answers the accusation levelled above: rather than empirical abstraction (which opens him up to the charge of pre-orientation), his articulation of [REL] now begins to take the form of an apologetic for a specific world-historical institution.
However, at this point a new charge arises. This would proceed as follows. If [REL] is indeed a mode of existence, embodied in a universal experience (as shifted up from its empirical site) then it certainly must not correlate to a particular world-historical form. In closely identifying [REL] with a world-historical institution, is it not the case, then, that Latour has post-orientated it, delegating by means of a substance metaphysics (in this case, the doctrines and received forms of tradition given by Christianity), and not to as a process of subsistence?
Does Latour manage to navigate the Scylla and Charybdis of these accusations?
In the next post, I will try to sketch out a route by which we might answer this question with a 'yes, mabye'.
 It is very interesting that Latour elsewhere describes Rejoicing – his book on religion – as his most 'scientific'!
This was a poignant series of tweets from Bruno Latour and the AIME team, posted a couple of days ago in response to events in Paris. For more context on Bruno's diagnosis of (religious) fundamentalism and its misplaced (and pernicious) rationality, see the post below.
Terrorists don't deserve to be given a meaning for their act: it's senseless. Victims do deserve an explanation but which if has no meaning?
Before, natural events could kill for no reason, now it's humans who kill for no reason, as to natural events, today they are human caused.
Today in Paris the nowhere of politics and the nowhere of religion are engulfing our minds. It would be tragic if the COP 21 was canceled.
May the Lord have mercy.


Dear Father, I thank You for the dignity of every human life. You created each person. You have knitted each one of us in the womb. You gave us life, free will, and the opportunity to have a relationship with You. Father, You didn't force us to follow Your way. You didn't force us to accept You as our God. You gave us the choice to decide for ourselves who or what we will worship. You gave us the opportunity to choose You. You will bless those who surrender their lives to You and who obey Your commands. You will not bless those who reject You. They will not enjoy Your guiding hand, Your wisdom, Your protection, Your strength, or Your miraculous provision. They will be on their own which is exactly what they wanted. Many needlessly suffer because they have turned their backs on You. However, You are so incredibly merciful that You give every human grace, even those who reject You. Hospitals. Doctors. Medicine. Food. Water. Police. Fire departments. Sleep. These things are examples of what we call Your common grace. Your common grace also includes our personal rights. You have given every citizen of this nation the right to believe what they want, the right to say what they want, the right to peacefully protest and petition the government, the right to own private property and to protect it, the right to a fair trial by jury, and the right to live our lives without micromanagement by the state. Father, thank You for these rights. They are a gift from You. I ask that I not take these rights for granted. May I use these rights to touch the lives of the hurting and to give them hope. May I use these rights to uphold justice in the community. May I use these rights to build Your Kingdom. Amen.


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Cabasse Pearl Keshi review: all 'bout that bass
A spherical spin on 2.1 streaming speakers
Simon Lucas Follow @@OnlySimonLucas
6 June 2022 / 08:00 BST 5 July 2022 / 08:52 BST
What's French and spherical and often sounds great? A Cabasse loudspeaker, that's what.
With the Pearl Keshi, Cabasse has stuck to its industrial design vocabulary (although in miniature) and managed to squeeze in a whole stack of functionality at the same time – this is an entire, self-contained system.
At no point has it decided to miniaturise the asking price, though – so what exactly does this big money buy?
Cabasse Pearl Keshi Design and build
There's something undeniably Star Wars-y about the way the Pearl Keshi subwoofer looks – it's a little bit Death Star, a little bit Kylo Ren… If it's small, perfectly formed and assertively designed you're after, this Cabasse system is for you.
The subwoofer (which is also home to over 1000 watts of power, an extremely hi-res digital-to-analogue converter, some inputs for external sources and connections to its partnering satellite speakers) is a tidy 24x22x27cm on its chrome hoop of a stand, and weighs in at just 6kg.
The speakers, meanwhile, are 10x8x8cm little spheres and weigh a trifling 550g each. Each has a little integrated stand similar to the one the subwoofer stands on, and here they click through eight different orientations to make sure they always face your listening position no matter where you decide to position them. They're just as easy to attach to the wall as to stand on a shelf. Bear in mind their 3m cable is hard-wired, though, so if you're keeping them close to the subwoofer you'll have quite a lot of cable to conceal.
The Pearl Keshi is available in matte black or matte white, and between the flawlessly applied paintwork and shiny accents, it looks the part. Build quality is good too, although the shiny 'Cabasse' logo on the subwoofer looks and feels like a bit of an afterthought.
Cabasse Pearl Keshi Features
As has long been the Cabasse way, the satellite speakers here are a coaxial design – that's to say the tweeter sits in the centre of the midrange driver. This configuration should allow better time-alignment of sound as well as improve the chances of effective stereo focus – and it certainly allows Cabasse to construct the spherical cabinet of which it's so enamoured.
The subwoofer, though, is where most of the action is. It cranks out 1050 watts of Class D power – each speaker receives 300 watts, and the balance is used to power the subwoofer's 17cm driver.
It can deal with digital audio files of all major types, up to a sky-high 32bit/768kHz and DSD128 standard. It has inputs for external equipment (3.5mm analogue, digital optical, Ethernet and microUSB – but not HDMI, frustratingly). It's wi-fi, Bluetooth and Apple AirPlay-enabled, and can stream from any content stored on a local network via UPnP. So yes, it's a subwoofer – but that's far from the extent of its talents.
Cabasse Pearl Keshi Interface
Cabasse deserves congratulations for its 'Streamcontrol' app. Quite often, companies that aren't enormous global concerns like Samsung or Sonos or Sony (to mention just a few of the 'S' ones) can struggle to design and execute a competitive control app – but Cabasse has delivered a stable, clean, logical and extremely wide-ranging app that's useful in many ways.
Here's where you can integrate your favourite music-streaming service, calibrate your system to suit the specific acoustics of your environment, add the Pearl Keshi into your Google Home or Amazon Alexa ecosystem, set up some input or radio-station presets and plenty more besides.
The basics can also be dealt with using the system's remote control. Cabasse has accepted that a remote control can't really be spherical, so it's gone with a big circular puck instead – one with a turning ring around the outside as a volume control. It's a bit of a triumph of style over ergonomics, to be honest, and the fact that it operates via Bluetooth is rather double-edged too. It means the battery lasts ages, but it also means that if you don't use it for a while it must be re-paired with the subwoofer.
Cabasse Pearl Keshi Performance
If it's punch and low-end presence you want, along with a frankly unlikely sense of scale from such a compact system, you'll be impressed by the Pearl Keshi. It has bottom-end wallop to spare – and it controls it nicely, too, with negligible overhang and none of the droning that less capable subwoofers tend to indulge in.
Low-frequency response is reasonably detailed and textured too – and that's true of the rest of the frequency range, though there's a little concavity where the sub hands over to the satellite speakers. And though the satellites do decent work, they're a little sharp and sibilant at the very top of the frequency range and can struggle to hold their own in the fight with the subwoofer. Tonality itself is otherwise fine, but the overall presentation is bass-loaded and a bit lop-sided as a result.
Dynamic headroom is genuinely impressive (although not entirely unsurprising given the amount of power on tap), and once you've orientated the satellite speakers correctly the soundstage is coherent and organised too. But even when given a recording with a shamelessly upfront vocal to deal with (Stevie Wonder's Living for the City, for instance), the midrange battles the bass at all times. Odds are heavily stacked in the subwoofer's favour.
The power rating means big volumes are available. But the Cabasse doesn't just go from 'loud' to 'louder' and on to 'bloody loud' – as levels rise, the treble edginess is exacerbated. And when you decide enough's enough and decide to listen at a civilised volume, the subwoofer isn't all that keen to back off – and so low frequencies seem to grow even more confident relative to the midrange and treble as you turn the system down, making them even more dominant. There's room calibration along with five EQ presets in the control app, but there are no changes available that will make a fundamental difference to the Pearl Keshi's prevailing attitude.
Cabasse Pearl Keshi Verdict
As a demonstration of engineering, the Pearl Keshi is worth hearing. And if you like a sort of nightclub slant to your sounds, it could be ideal – but if it's realism you're after, not so much.
Stuff Says…
Score: 3/5
Tiny system, big sound – but the Cabasse is too much of a good thing.
As cheerfully punchy as Tyson Fury
Discreet, good-looking and well-specified
Worthwhile control app
As remorselessly punchy as Tyson Fury
No HDMI input
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Bertram pushed Knepper away and ran out the door.
The actor, best known for his role as Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell on Fox's Prison Break, turned to Instagram to deny the allegations, writing that he was "shocked and devastated to be falsely accused of violence against a woman. It's just not who I am." Following publication of her account in The Hollywood Reporter, four more women stepped forward to accuse Knepper of misconduct.
The lawsuit says Knepper's denials amount to defamation.
"The false Knepper statements have interfered with (Bertram's) ability to find work, have damaged her reputation in the Hollywood and entertainment community, and have caused her great mortification and emotional distress," the lawsuit claims.
Bertram argues that Knepper's statements are "false and slanderous" and impugn her character and competence. People who read or heard about his comments would think she was "untrustworthy, deranged, unqualified to work" — harming her professional reputation. She says, in the court filing, that she suffered severe mental anguish as a result.
"(Knepper) acted with malice, oppression, and fraud, and with the wrongful intention of hurting (Bertram)," the suit alleges. She is seeking damages in a jury trial.


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Was the Story About Jan Brewer Putting "Gay-to-Straight Programs" in Schools Believable?
Matthew Hendley August 26, 2013 6:00AM
In case you missed it, no, Governor Jan Brewer is not putting "gay-to-straight programs" in Arizona schools.
Tons of people fell for the fake news story that was circulated online, and many people -- including those who were fooled and those who were not -- said they wouldn't put it past Brewer to try to do something like this.
-No, Jan Brewer Is Not Putting "Gay-To-Straight Programs" in Arizona Schools
-Here Are 100 People Freaking Out Over Arizona's Fake "Gay-To-Straight Programs"
It seems a little extraordinary (to say the least), but the fake quote attributed to Brewer said, "I think this will be an amazing opportunity for gay children to finally learn who they truly are for once in their lives. Can you imagine how much more productive these 'now-straight' children will be not always being bullied or wondering why god made them defective? What we have done here today is monumental. I can only hope and pray that other states follow suit."
Brewer has made some anti-gay moments in her history, but not that extreme. You may recall that Brewer has opposed gay marriage and signed a law to end benefits for "domestic partners" of state employees.
Also, while Brewer was campaigning against Terry Goddard back in 2010, Brewer's top adviser/campaign boss Chuck Coughlin suggested that Goddard was gay.
But demanding gay schoolchildren be taught how to be straight is not something she's even considered (well, publicly, we guess).
However, some people aren't putting it past her. As for this fake news report, was there some aspect about it that you think was believable?
Cast your vote below:
Send feedback and tips to the author.
Follow Matthew Hendley on Twitter at @MatthewHendley.


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Born in Newtown, Connecticut, Joseph Stillson was an early educator and doctor in Lawrence County.
Joseph came to Bedford in 1836 and taught school while pursing medical studies with Dr. Winthrop Foote.
He attended medical lectures at the University of Louisville and began practice in Nashville, Indiana in 1840. He returned to Bedford in 1841 and resided there until his death.
In 1840, he married Eliza Reddick. They had 4 children.
He was a member of the Christian Church.


Locality: United States, Colorado, Jefferson, Golden, Ranson/Edwards Homestead Open Space Park. High plains above Rocky Flats, 1.7 miles west on Colorado Highway 72 from Colorado Highway 93, 1.3 miles north on Plainview Road, then 60 meters east.
Habitat: On an old ranch road that heads in the direction of the original homestead.


This game deleted my level 85 character before the launch of the game, so i could never get back into it. Please start up new servers regularly while regulary taking down old ones. Is it too much to ask to have new a new server or two start up once a month? And then let your player base know when they will launch? Id like to get back into the game and buy the new DLC but i dont wanna start the DLC being at level 1 again. I wouldnt mind starting fresh day 1 of new servers again, itll add to your player base, people dont wanna come back after they get wiped and have to build under alpha tribes that dont let you build up, or ones that do let you build up and then wipe you because they think its funny to waste hundreds of hours of peoples lives. Please Wildcard release new servers, even for the old maps the center and ragnarok are my personal favorites, but the only active servers currently are on day 5000+ which is no fun for a newbie to want to come into or get back into.


1. Department of Surgery, Yaoundé University Teaching Hospital.
Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Science (FMBS), University of Yaounde I – CAMEROON.
2. Department of Surgery, Mother and Child Hospital, FMBS, University of Yaounde I.
3. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea-Cameroon.
4.Professor of General Surgery, University of Yaounde I.
des Urgences du CHU de Yaoundé.
entre août 2008 et septembre 2009 au Service des Urgences.


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Ville au Kansas
Localité dans le comté de Cherokee (Kansas)
Siège de comté au Kansas

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Razer Kraken Gaming Headset Review: Reimagining a Gaming Great
By Andy Hartup 2019-11-25T16:15:49Z
The new Kraken is great value, and delivers better audio than you'd expect, but you build quality and features to save some cash.
Decent price for a gaming headset
Consistent sound across most media
Comfy to wear and adjust
Simple to use
Heavy reliance on bass
Feels a bit cheap
Light on features
Polarizing green aesthetic.
For more information visit their website
Update November 25, 2019: Alongside the best holiday tech deals, the Razer Kraken is now on sale for its lowest price ever, $50. We were already happy with the sound quality if offered for the price before, so it's an even better value proposition now. Although, the Razer Kraken Tournament Edition, which we recommend if you can spend the extra cash, is also on sale for $55.
Original review June 6, 2019:
Update: Razer's just launched another batch of color refreshed products, including this model of its Kraken gaming headset in a pristine white variant instead. The Mercury lineup, as Razer is calling it, is a clean looking arsenal of products featuring the Huntsman optical keyboard, the Basilisk mouse, the Seiren X the Blackwidow and even one of Razer's latest Blade gaming laptops too.
The Razer Kraken is the updated and enhanced version of the best-selling Razer Kraken Pro V2, which is one of the company's most popular gaming headsets. Aside from a shorter name, the new Kraken features more padding around the headband, an improved mic, and cooling gel in the ear cushions to keep the heat out on those sweltering summer nights.
It's a world of small improvements and minor tweaks, especially after the company released the eSports focused version of the Kraken - the Tournament Edition last year. While some hardcore PC gamers like to dismiss Razer products, there's no denying that the Kraken Pro V2 has become an iconic figure in the gaming headset world. So how does the sleek younger model hold up to its aged, and refined cousins?
Regardless of your views on Razer products and their often RGB-heavy design, there's no denying that the Kraken is surprisingly understated. It's a simple design, featuring a plastic headband that attaches to two oval earcups, which are also made of a painted plastic. The lack of metal and real leather in the design means that the headset is super light, (just over 320g), but this also gives it a less sturdy feel than other models we've tested. Sure, it's flexible, and can withstand a fair amount of torsion in either direction, but you wouldn't want to drop the Kraken on a hardwood floor too often, nor would you pull it apart too wide when removing it from your head.
There's a metal frame around each earcup, which is connected to the innards of the headband. It does add sturdiness, and all the fixings around each part feels well attached and firm. The 3.5mm jack cord, which is attached to the left earcup, is nicely nestled into the unit, and the retractable mic fits snugly into the same half of the headset. While it does feature in-line controls, they're very simple, and you get far more with the similarly-priced Tournament Edition, which has bass controls (crucially), game/chat balance, and the ability to switch its THX Spatial audio off, for non-gaming use. The Kraken has none of this, sadly.
Elsewhere on the unit, the foam padding around the ears is nice and supple, and the addition of extra padding on the headband is a welcome addition. In fact, it's so well padded, that some with smaller heads may worry it doesn't fit as tightly on the head as they might like, but that's all down to personal preference. For us, it fits neatly, and is easily adjusted via the numbered notches on the edge of the headband. The look is completed by a mostly open-back design on the earcups themselves, with a pleasant black wire mesh finishing the look.
How do you feel about color? Because the green version of the Kraken is quite the visual statement, and makes the headset feel a little cheaper than the build suggests. Meanwhile, the black version is more understated, if a little dull. And the Quartz pink Kraken? Perfection. Seriously, it's available in all these flavors, and unless you're super into pink, none feel particularly stylish.
Driver Type 50mm Neodymium Dynamic
Design Style Open Back
Microphone Type Retractable Cardioid
Connectivity 3.5mm
Weight 0.71 lbs / 322g
Cord Length 1.3m / 4 ft 3"
Battery Life Wired
Lighting and Software None
When put to work, the Kraken performs well for gaming, and that's where we tested. It's the Tournament Edition that is more geared towards PC, but we put this one through its paces on all current gaming formats. Starting with our current favorite testing game, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the Kraken performed well with all bassy elements of Ubisoft's AAA gaming flagship. When waves crash against the side of the Adestria, this headset (rather fittingly, considering the name) delivers well. And, during combat sequences, that emphasis on bass manages to make each thud and collision sound meaty and whole. Where the Kraken falls down a little is in the treble and upper ranges, which are not as rich sounding. When you're stood listening to the ambient world, too, there's a lack of detail that other, more premium headsets, manage to pick up on.
It's a little unfair to compare the Kraken to headsets that cost double the price, and the overall sound range here is excellent for the money. However, what we did notice is that it missed several bits of audio that our testing TV (in this case a Samsung Q9FN) picked up instead, like the subtle crackling of fire in some scenes, which was a crying shame.
In terms of dialogue, the Kraken performs pretty well, as its slightly flatter range of sound means there are less issues with the mix of dialogue and incidental audio in games like Assassin's Creed. The in-game music is presented pretty well too, although there's a lack of clarity in some of the higher-pitched guitar numbers once again on the Odyssey soundtrack. So, as a single player headset, it's fine - but perhaps no better than the speakers on a high-end TV.
Turning to multiplayer, we tested it out with Apex Legends, and it's here that the Kraken impresses. The bassy tuning is perfect for hearing those big explosions, both near and far away, and because these pair of cans are fine-tuned for gaming, there's a decent sense of imaging here too. The pings of on-screen instructions mixed nicely with the constant thunder of weapon fire, and the stereo sound -- while not as complex a surround audio system as you'll find on Pro-grade gaming headsets -- provides a decent sense of your place in the environment. You hear the footsteps sneaking up on you, you hear the distant gun-fire, and you know roughly where all your teammates are. Not excellent, but very solid functionality here, which is important - but herein lies a problem for the Kraken. Its slightly older brother, the Tournament has THX Spatial audio, which does a better job of imaging in multiplayer games, and it costs pretty much the same (it depends which unit has the bigger price cut in the online sales they both frequent). What's more, the TE also has the option to toggle THX on or off, making it more versatile for when you switch between on and offline games. And that bassy audio that the vanilla Kraken favors? Yeah, you can tweak that on the Tournament Edition to make it less (or more, you animal) bassy.
Turning to something a little different, we tried the headset with music puzzle game GNOG, to test its in-game audio capabilities. The 50mm drivers do an excellent job of bringing the game's audio to life, and while there's a lack of subtlety to the music sections (again, the headset continues to favor bass) and a slightly indistinct feel to the audio feedback when you actually click on things, we'd say the audio here is above average for a lower/mid-range gaming headset. The Kraken's biggest asset, its simplicity, is also its curse. With no ability to adjust sound settings, the audio it delivers has to do a hell of a lot of work in a variety of scenarios.
In terms of other media, the Kraken performs well, although nowhere near more specialized headphones. It delights in action movies, like Avengers and Black Panther, but struggles with more subtle dramas and talk-heavy TV shows, because it can't quite deliver the range of audio to bring the dialogue and incidental noises to life. As far as music goes, again, anything with a decent bassline is fine (excellent for metal), but the headset is middling with treble and more subtle guitar based tracks. Given the tuning and design of the Kraken, we know its primary use is gaming, and we definitely wouldn't recommend it if you're looking for a headset purely for movies, music, and TV.
Features and Software
The Kraken is a barebones gaming headset. The retractable mic and in-line volume control are the only frills. Let's start with the mic. It's retractable and very sturdy, so it is simple to slide away when you're not using it. Audio through it is clear, once you've got it lined up properly, and there's a noticeable improvement here over the mic in the older Kraken Pro V2. There's a reasonable amount of noise exclusion from the sides and rear of the mic, although it can't block out all background sounds.
The in-line control is… well, an in-line control. The volume wheel pokes out of both sides of its housing, which is a neat ease-of-use feature, and there's a mic mute button too. It sits a good length from the earcup, so you're not poking yourself in the face when attempting to each it, and it feels well attached to the nylon cord that the 3.5mm jack dangles from.
The new and improved Kraken is a decent gaming headset, and will serve you extremely well for action games, shooters, and anything with a lot of noise and bluster. It's great at bass, but less so across the whole range of audio, but does punch above its weight considering the price tag and simplicity of the build.
The Kraken is simply designed, and is quite elegant in places, but the color-scheme is polarizing, and some of the materials feel a little cheap. It's clear why the Pro V2 became such a big name in gaming headsets, and this is technically a better model, but the world expects more features and slightly superior audio in 2019, so if you're planning to invest in a Razer headset and can spend a few dollars more, the Tournament Edition might be a better choice, because of its enhanced audio and better volume control features.
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The following sacred sites have been partially or completely destroyed, for the most part, by external man-made forces. In compiling the list below, Sacred Sites International aims to keep a historical record of the existence of these sacred sites alive for interested individuals who would like to learn about them. Moreover, we intend to document the significance of these sacred sites to the societies and cultures that constructed and consecrated them.
Armenian St. Kevork [Saint George] Church (Allepo, Syria) – included on the 2013 SSIF Lost Sites List
Barabaig Burial Grounds (Tanzania)
Berkeley Shellmound (Berkeley, California, United States)
Dalfsen Burial Ground, (Overijssel, The Netherlands)
Devic Monastery (near the town of Skenderaj, Kosovo)
Edegem, Belgium – submitted by Site Saver, John Palmer
Emeryville Shellmound (Emeryville, California, United States) – included on the 2008 SSIF Lost Sites List
Jobar Synagogue (Damascus, Syria) – included on the 2013 SSIF Lost Sites List
Keka'a Black Rock (Ka'anapali Beach, Lahaina, Hawaii, United States)
Kopse Hof Bronze Age Stone Circles and Cairns (Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Lower McCloud River (Redding, California, United States) – included on the 2008 SSIF Lost Sites List
Putiidhem Village (San Juan Capistrano, California, United States) – included on the 2008 SSIF Lost Sites List
Umayyad Mosque (Allepo, Syria) – inlcuded on the 2013 SSIF Lost Sites List
Volcanic Tableland Petroglyphs (Inyo County, California, United States) – included on the 2013 SSIF Lost Sites List
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In Photos: Amulets and figurines discovered in newly unearthed sarcophagus in Minya - Ancient Egypt - Heritage
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The First Secretary and Consul at Damascus (Satterthwaite) to the Secretary of State
Damascus, April 30, 1945.
[Received May 7.]
Sir: I have the honor to enclose a memorandum of the conversation74 which Minister Wadsworth had with President Shukri Kuwatly and with Foreign Minister and Acting Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey on April 25, 1945. This memorandum will, it is believed, provide the Department with background information of a nature to [Page 1062]further its comprehension of the situation in Syria in the light of present or possible developments.
It is becoming more and more evident that the principal point of French policy in the Levant at the moment revolves around a French belief in the necessity for delay. The Department will recall that the French Delegate General in the Levant, General Beynet, departed for Paris on March 9, purportedly to receive instructions after reporting to his Government. A more amicable atmosphere for negotiation had at last been established, mainly due to American and British pressure, and the General's visit, Syrian officials were led to believe, would require some ten days, after which he would return with instructions permitting him to attempt to solve Levant problems.
It will be apparent from the conversation that the Syrian Minister in Paris, Adnan Attassi, had with General Beynet and M. Bidault on April 12, as reported in the attached memo, that more than one month after the General's departure from Syria the French had little of a constructive nature to say to the Syrian Minister. General Beynet had left Syria on March 9 to get instructions in Paris from M. Bidault, and on April 12 M. Bidault was looking forward to discussing Franco-Syrian problems with the Chairman of the Syrian Delegation at San Francisco.75
From the Syrian point of view all this procrastination seems a deliberate policy. Government officials are well aware of the temper of the population, whom they have done their best to restrain, but in Jamil Mardam Bey's final words to Mr. Wadsworth, a way must be found out of this political obscurity or "serious new troubles will result".
J. C. Satterthwaite
Faris al-Khouri, Syrian Prime Minister.↩


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Due to a reporting error, two different scores were given in last week's story about the Barnstable boys soccer team's game against Bridgewater-Raynham.
Due to a reporting error, two different scores were given in last week's story about the Barnstable boys soccer team's game against Bridgewater-Raynham. The correct score was 3-1. Also, we reported that Barnstable incurred two red card penalties in a game against Taunton; the correct count was one. Finally, the game in which a potentially instigating event by an opposing player occurred was against Sandwich, not Taunton…. The Town of Barnstable came in sixth in Prevention magazine's list of the top eight "Best US Cities for Weight Loss." We pushed ourselves away from the table and went online to find this encomium: "Despite eateries plying tourists with buttery lobster rolls and seaside ice cream cones, Barnstable has some of the country's best-behaved residents. They tend to exercise regularly, eat well, favor fruits and veggies, and not smoke, according to the Gallup poll." Hmm… do you think we've been honest with Gallup's gang? For the record, Boulder and Fort Collins in Colorado top the list, followed by Ventura, CA, Bellingham, WA, and Asheville, NC. We beat out San Luis Obispo and San Diego in California…. Wanted: double bass players. Two retirements have left the Cape Community Orchestra without occupants of those chairs as it prepares for its November concerts. If you're interested, come to one of the orchestra's rehearsals, held Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. at the Harwich Community Center on Oak Street, or go to www.ccorchestra.weebly.com…. Retired Col. William H. Crowley of Centerville sent along a Web link to an organization that's working on a National Museum of the U.S. Army, to be built near Washington, D.C. Go to www.armyhistory.org to learn more…. Stop by the Hyannis Public Library for a slip of paper you can use at Uno Chicago Grill Nov. 10 and 11 to support library programs. The restaurant will donate up to 20 percent of checks on those days to the library…. Apparently, there are computer programs that help people write press releases. We know this because we received a release whose writer failed to edit out the instructions, including, "Try phrases like: dramatic savings, clearance, overstocked, reduced rates, buy 1 get 1 free, treat yourself, you deserve it, and don't miss out."….TOO LATE FOR THE LISTINGS: The Daniel Webster Inn on Main Street in Sandwich will host a travel marketing presentation by CT1 Media covering the future of digital marketing and social media Oct. 13 from 4 to 6 p.m. RSVP to Katherine Markuszka at kmarkuszka@tribune.com.


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11 septembrie este a 254-a zi a calendarului gregorian și a 255-a zi în anii bisecți. Mai sunt 111 zile până la sfârșitul anului.

Evenimente

 1649: A luat sfârșit asediul Droghedei, armata parlamentaristă a lui Oliver Cromwell intrând în oraș și executând garnizoana acestuia.
 1709: Bătălia de la Malplaquet, parte a Războiului Succesiunii Spaniole.
 1792: În timp ce regele Ludovic al XVI-lea al Franței și familia sa erau închiși în Tour du Temple în timpul Revoluției franceze, diamantul "Speranța" este furat împreună cu alte bijuterii ale coroanei franceze de un grup de șase hoți care au intrat în depozitul regal, Hôtel du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne. Ulterior, mai multe bijuterii au fost recuperate însă diamantul albastrul francez nu. În 1839 a apărut în catalogul unei colecții de bijuterii deținute de o familie bancară londoneză.
 1851: Emigrația română a aderat la Comitetul Central Democratic European de la Londra. Dimitrie C. Brătianu, reprezentantul României, a fost cel care a semnat actul de adeziune.
 1853: Pentru prima dată se utilizează telegraful electric.
 1873: În Sankt Petersburg pe strada Odesei sunt aprinse primele lămpi electrice.
 1878: Agenția diplomatică română de la Viena este ridicată la rangul de legație; prima legație a României în străinătate. Ion Bălăceanu devine primul ambasador român în străinătate.
 1940: S-a dizolvat Partidul Națiunii – partid "unic și totalitar" sub conducerea supremă a regelui Carol al II-lea.

 1944: Ofensiva trupelor germano-ungare în retragere, în zonele Crișana și Banat.
 1945: Între 11 septembrie - 2 octombrie 1945 au loc, la Londra, convorbiri între miniștrii de Externe britanic, sovietic și american. În privința României se decide reorganizarea guvernului Groza, prin includerea a câte unui reprezentant din 'Partidul Național Țărănesc și din Partidul Național Liberal, după care "noul" guvern urma să organizeze alegeri libere.
 1973: O lovitură de stat din Chile condusă de generalul Augusto Pinochet îl răsturnă de la putere pe președintele ales democratic, Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercită puterea dictatorială până la eliminarea sa printr-un referendum în 1988, rămânând la putere până în 1990.
 1989: Ungaria deschide Cortina de Fier, pentru a permite germanilor din RDG aflați în concediu în Ungaria să se refugieze în RFG.
 1991: George W. Bush Senior a anunțat existența Noii Ordini Mondiale ().
 2001: 2.996 de oameni aveau să își piardă viața în urma atacurilor teroriste din 11 septembrie din SUA. Atentatele teroriste, de o amploare fără precedent, de la New York și Washington, DC; au fost distruse turnurile gemene din complexul comercial World Trade Center (WTC) din New York și o parte din clădirea Pentagonului din Washington D.C. (ce adăpostește Departamentul Apărării și Statul Major General al Forțelor Armate ale SUA). Ziua de 11 septembrie a fost declarată, printr-un decret prezidențial, Ziua patrioților.
 2007: Rusia testează cea mai mare armă convențională existentă vreodată, denumită Tatăl tuturor bombelor.
 2009: Mihai Ghimpu, numit în funcția de președinte al Parlamentului pe 28 august, a devenit președinte interimar al Republicii Moldova.

Nașteri
 1476: Louise de Savoia, mama regelui Francisc I al Franței, regentă a Franței (d. 1531)
 1522: Ulisse Aldrovandi, naturalist italian (d. 1605)
 1524: Pierre de Ronsard, poet francez (d. 1585)
 1611: Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Viconte de Turenne, mareșal al Franței  (d. 1675)
 1656: Ulrica Eleonora a Danemarcei, soția regelui Frederic al III-lea al Danemarcei (d. 1693)
 1751: Charlotte de Saxa-Meiningen, ducesă de Saxa-Gotha-Altenburg (d. 1827)
 1771: Mungo Park, explorator scoțian (d. 1806)
 1798: Franz Ernst Neumann, fizician și matematician german (d. 1895)
 1816: Carl Zeiss, inginer mecanic german, creatorul instrumentului optic (d. 1888)
 1822: Marea Ducesă Olga Nikolaevna, soția regelui Karl de Württemberg (d. 1892)

 1853: Katharina Schratt, actriță austriacă și metresa lui Franz Joseph al Austriei (d. 1940)
 1854: Hippolyte Petitjean, pictor francez post-impresionist (d. 1929)
 1858: Nicolae Xenopol, critic literar, eseist, om de cultură, diplomat, politician și ministru român  (d. 1917)
 1861: Juhani Aho, scriitor finlandez (d. 1921)
 1861: Erich von Falkenhayn, șef al statului major german în primul război mondial (d. 1922)
 1862: O. Henry, scriitor american (d. 1910)
 1877: Felix Edmundovici Dzerjinski, revoluționar și om de stat polonezo-rus (d. 1926)
 1887: Andrée Lavieille, pictoriță franceză (d. 1960)
 1885: D. H. Lawrence, poet, eseist englez (d. 1930)
 1893: Oszkár Nagy, pictor și grafician român de origine maghiară (d. 1965)
 1916: Knut Kolsrud, etnolog norvegian (d. 1989)
 1903: Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, filosof, sociolog și compozitor german (d. 1969)
 1917: Ferdinand Marcos, politician filipinez, al 10-lea președinte al Filipine (d. 1989)
 1924: Ion Rotaru, critic și istoric literar român (d. 2006)
 1932: Gavril Dejeu, politician român
 1933: Cornel Pelmuș, scrimer român (d. 2017)
 1939: Josef Jakob, handbalist născut în România
 1940: Brian De Palma, regizor american de film
 1945: Franz Beckenbauer, fotbalist, antrenor, manager german
 1947: Alexa Visarion, regizor și scenarist român
 1952: Cornel Știrbeț, politician român
 1957: Tiberiu Toró, politician român
 1965: Bashar al-Assad, președintele Siriei
 1965: Moby, muzician, DJ, cantautor și fotograf american
 1967: Adriana Săftoiu, politician român
 1968: Slaven Bilić, fotbalist și antrenor croat de fotbal
 1970: Fanny Cadeo, actriță și fotomodel italian
 1970: Taraji P. Henson, actriță și cântăreață americană
 1970: Dan Motreanu, politician român
 1971: Nicoleta Grasu, aruncătoare de disc română
 1976: Tomáš Enge, pilot ceh de curse
 1977: Ludacris, rapper și actor american
 1979: Éric Abidal, fotbalist francez
 1982: Svetlana Tihanovskaia, activistă din Belarus
 1984: Carlos Cardoso, fotbalist brazilian
 1987: Kaori Matsumoto, judoka japoneză
 1991: Jordan Ayew, fotbalist ghanez

Decese
 1063: Béla I al Ungariei (n. 1016)
 1349: Bonna de Boemia, ducesă consort de Normandia, contesă consort de Anjou și Maine (n. 1315)
 1646: Odoardo Farnese, Duce de Parma (n. 1612)
 1676: Anna de Medici, arhiducesă de Austria (n. 1616)
 1680: Împăratul Go-Mizunoo al Japoniei (n. 1596)
 1733: François Couperin, compozitor francez (n. 1668)
 1822: David Ricardo,  economist englez (n. 1772)

 1870: Eugenio Lucas Velázquez, pictor spaniol (n. 1817)
 1888: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, politician argentinian, al 7-lea președinte al Argentinei (n. 1811)
 1910: Heinrich Caro, chimist german (n. 1834)
 1914: Mircea Demetriade, poet, dramaturg și actor român (n. 1861)
 1941: Cristian Racovski, comunist bulgar, de profesie medic, stabilit în România și în Rusia, politician și diplomat sovietic (n. 1873)
 1947: Alice Keppel, metresă a regelui Eduard al VII-lea al Regatului Unit (n. 1868)
 1971: Nicolae Bănescu, istoric român (n. 1878)
 1971: Nikita Hrușciov, om politic rus, conducător al Partidului Comunist din fosta URSS, prim-ministru (n. 1894)
 1974: Ion Popescu-Sibiu, medic, psihiatru și psihanalist român (n. 1901)
 1982: Wifredo Lam, pictor, litograf, sculptor și ceramist cubanez (n. 1902)
 1985: Ion Frunzetti, critic și istoric de artă, poet, publicist, eseist și traducător român (n. 1918)
 1994: Jessica Tandy, actriță britanică (n. 1909)
 2001: George Văsii, arhitect, scriitor român (n. 1935)
 2003: John Ritter, actor american (n. 1948)
 2011: Andy Whitfield, actor și model galez (n. 1972)
 2015: Oana Ioachim, actriță română de teatru și film (n. 1967)
 2017: Abdul Halim de Kedah, al 14-lea șef de stat al Malaeziei și al 27-lea sultan de Kedah (n. 1927)
 2022: Florin Hidișan, fotbalist român (n. 1982)
 2022: Javier Marías, scriitor spaniol (n. 1951)

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Palaestrae
These establishments were used for training youths in boxing and wrestling and were also frequented by Socrates and other philosophers. This article contains a discussion of the locations of the palaestrae (wrestling schools) that are known to have existed in Athens, and the the function of these establishments.
References and Further Reading
1. Locations
Palaestrae were an integral part of larger gymnasia (areas for general physical training and athletics) and are attested for the three well-known gymnasia areas of Athens (the Academy [Hyperides,Demosthenes, fr. 6], Cynosarges [Diogenes Laertius, 6.30.8 and Aelian, True History 8.14.3], and Lyceum [Pseudo-Plutarch, Lives of the Orators 841d and 843f]). These schools for training in combat sports also existed separately from gymnasia in the city of Athens itself and in the countryside.
As a result of the difficulty of archaeological exploration amidst the urban sprawl of modern Athens, even the general locations of most of the palaestrae outside the major gymnasia areas of Archaic and Classical Athens and Attica are not known with certainty. Only two urban Athenian palaestrae may be roughly located: the palaistra of Taureas and the palaistra where Mikkos was a sophist. The palaistra of Taureas is said by Plato ( Charmides 153a, Lucian, Parasite 43) to have been opposite the sanctuary of Basile. Neither the sanctuary nor the palaistra may be located with any certainty, however, despite Travlos' confident statement that a boundary stone marking an unnamed sanctuary near the corner of modern Syngrou Blvd. and Hatzichristou St. refers to the sanctuary of Basile (Travlos, PDA 332 and fig. 435). The palaistra where Mikkos taught is said by Plato to have been near the Panops fountain, which has been placed in the neighborhood of the Diochares Gates in Northeast Athens (Ritchie, "Lyceum" 253-254 and Travlos, PDA 159-160).
There were palaestrae in the Attic countryside as well. For example, the sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron had both a gymnasium and a palaestra (SEG XL 91). Kephissia possessed a palaistra ( SEG XXXII 147) and it is likely that many of the other demes, especially large ones like Acharnae and Aphidna, had their own as well. There is also the case of the so-called "Palaestra of Cercyon," a palaestra belonging to a mythical person, but associated with an actual place along the Eleusis-Megara road (Bacchylides 18.26, Scholia of Arethas on Lucian 21.21). The travel writer Pausanias (1.39.3) himself visited the site.
Other palaestrae mentioned by the ancient sources include the place where Ariston of Argos trained Plato as a youth (Apuleius, On Plato 1.2 and Suda, s.v. Platon), the palaestra of Hippocrates (Pseudo-Plutarch, Lives of the Orators 837e) where Isocrates died in 337 BC, and the palaestra of Sibyrtios (Plutarch, Alcibiades 3) where a follower of Alcibiades was killed. For the other palaestrae mentioned by the ancient sources there is no indication of place or even number (Kratinos, fr. 176, Lysias, fr. 6.1Teisis, Theophrastus, Characters 7.5, Aelian Varia Historia 4.24.2, Pollux, Onomastica 2.13); some of these unnamed palaestrae may refer to the same structures or they may be independent facilities.
The palaestrae in the Academy, Brauron, Cynosarges, and Lyceum would have come under the superintendence of the cult officials who oversaw the larger gymnasia areas. Other palaestrae appear to have been overseen and regulated by public officials, such as the paidotribes or epistates (Aeschines,Against Timarchus 10). The only firm evidence for the private ownership of a palaestra comes from Theophrastus, who appears in this instance to be describing in extreme and unflattering terms a small, poorly constructed home palaestra (Theophrastus, Characters 21.15-16).
2. Function
The very name palaestra derives from the verb palaiein, meaning "to wrestle." Palaestrae had three basic functions: (1) as training areas for combat sports such as wrestling and boxing, (2) as areas for cult activity, and (3) as meeting places for discussion, philosophical and otherwise. Plato's depiction of Socrates engaging in philosophical discourse provides a most vivid picture of life in the Classical Athenian palaestrae. For example, in Plato's Lysis, it is a palaistra into which Socrates is drawn for a discussion of Eros (Sexual Love) and Philia (Friendship). Within the palaestra, boys play at games with knucklebones and engage in the more serious business of sacrificing to Hermes (Plato, Lysis 206c, Scholia of Arethas on Plato Lysis 206c, Proklos On Plato's Alcibiades 1.195.4). Older men sit on the edges of the enclosure discussing the physical and moral merits of the young men. In P lato's Charmides a similar scene is painted. In this dialogue Socrates returns from battle at Potidaea to the palaestra of Taureas, which is described as one of his regular haunts, and engages Critias and his young cousin Charmides in a discussion of sophrosyne or "temperance."
Plato's choice of the palaestra as a setting for two Socratic dialogues is no accident. Wrestling metaphors recur throughout the Platonic dialogues. For example, in the Phaedrus the conquest of the baser part of the soul by the virtuous part is compared with a wrestling victory in the Olympic games (256b, also compare Protagoras 350e). In part, this use of wrestling metaphors may be an autobiographical touch on the part of Plato, as later tradition tells us that he himself was successful as a young wrestler at the Nemean games (Suda, s.v. Platon). However, the placement of Socrates, a philosopher of the most active sort, amidst those training to fight is most apt. After all, Socrates always sought intellectual contests, not so much for the winning, he would say, but for gaining insight into the truth.
Both as a locale for philosophical discussion and teaching and as a metaphor for a struggle for the truth, palaestrae would continue to be used by philosophers throughout antiquity and become a common leitmotif in the writings of the Church Fathers of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
3. References and Further Reading
W. Morison, "Attic Gymnasia and Palaistrai: Public or Private?" The Ancient World 31.2 (2000) 140-143.
W. Morison, "An Honorary Deme Decree and the Administration of a Palaistra in Kephissia," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 131 (2000) 93-98.
S. Glass, "The Greek Gymnasium: Some Problems," in The Archaeology of the Olympics, ed. W.J. Raschke. Madison 1988.
C.E. Ritchie, "The Lyceum, the Garden of Theophrastos and the Garden of the Muses. A Topographical Reevaluation," in Philia epê. Athens 1986-1989.
J. Travlos, Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens. Athens 1971.
Wycherley, R.E. The Stones of Athens. Princeton 1978.
William Morison
Email: morisonw@gvsu.edu


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En informatique,  (modules d'authentification enfichables, en abrégé PAM) est un mécanisme permettant d'intégrer différents schémas d'authentification de bas niveau dans une API de haut niveau, permettant de ce fait de rendre indépendants du schéma les logiciels réclamant une authentification.

PAM est une création de Sun Microsystems et est supporté en 2006 sur les architectures Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, AIX et HP-UX.

L'administrateur système peut alors définir une stratégie d'authentification sans devoir recompiler des programmes d'authentification. PAM permet de contrôler la manière dont les modules sont enfichés dans les programmes en modifiant un fichier de configuration.

Les programmes qui donnent aux utilisateurs un accès à des privilèges doivent être capables de les authentifier. Lorsque vous vous connectez sur le système, vous indiquez votre nom et votre mot de passe. Le processus de connexion vérifie que vous êtes bien la personne que vous prétendez être. Il existe d'autres formes d'authentification que l'utilisation des mots de passe, qui peuvent d'ailleurs être stockés sous différentes formes.

Modules PAM

Les modules PAM sont des bibliothèques dynamiques (par ex. pam_unix.so) fournissant les six primitives d'authentification définies dans la norme, regroupées dans quatre mécanismes :

 Le mécanisme account fournit une seule primitive : il vérifie si le compte demandé est disponible (si le compte n'est pas arrivé à expiration, si l'utilisateur est autorisé à se connecter à cette heure de la journée, etc.).
 Le mécanisme auth fournit deux primitives ; il assure l'authentification réelle, éventuellement en demandant et en vérifiant un mot de passe, et il définit des « certificats d'identité » tels que l'appartenance à un groupe ou des « tickets » kerberos.
 Le mécanisme password fournit une seule primitive : il permet de mettre à jour le jeton d'authentification (en général un mot de passe), soit parce qu'il a expiré, soit parce que l'utilisateur souhaite le modifier.
 Le mécanisme session fournit deux primitives : mise en place et fermeture de la session. Il est activé une fois qu'un utilisateur a été autorisé afin de lui permettre d'utiliser son compte. Il lui fournit certaines ressources et certains services, par exemple en montant son répertoire personnel, en rendant sa boîte aux lettres disponible, en lançant un agent ssh, etc.

Extensions
 pam_mount est une extension de PAM permettant de monter un système de fichiers quand un utilisateur se connecte. On pourra par exemple lancer le montage d'un répertoire CIFS en utilisant le mot de passe que l'utilisateur vient de rentrer. De plus, la partition sera démontée quand l'utilisateur va se déconnecter. En le combinant avec le module pam_ldap, il permet d'utiliser le couple SaMBa/OpenLDAP pour l'authentification et la gestion des répertoires utilisateur sous Linux. Mais les fonctions de pam_mount ne s'arrêtent pas là : il permet aussi de monter à la connexion des partitions de nombreux types comme des partitions chiffrées comme loop-AES.

Critiques de PAM

Voir aussi

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  Linux PAM
  Sun PAM

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Persimmon described it as a homebuyer's "retention", but could have called it the Jeff Fairburn memorial clause. Buyers of Persimmon houses will be able to withhold 1.5% of the purchase price, or £3,600 on average, until the builder has fixed any faults. It is an eye-catching gesture designed to combat Persimmon's reputation for corporate greed, as embodied by Fairburn's infamous £75m bonus.
Even government ministers seem to have noticed that bonanza and decided to take a look at Persimmon. They found a company making £1.1bn of annual profit, thanks in large part to the government's help-to-buy scheme, but generating a disproportionately high volume of complaints from customers.
Persimmon lost its Home Builders Federation four-star rating for customer satisfaction, regarded as the bare minimum for a major housebuilder, in 2014 and has yet to regain it. For a government desperately scratching around for reasons to justify another round of subsidies for first-time buyers, it looked terrible. Cue muttering from ministers about banning Persimmon from help to buy, even if the legal basis always sounded a little hazy.
The warnings, though, will have been heard in the boardroom. The post-Fairburn crew (even new chief executive Dave Jenkinson, who trousered £40m himself) have been banging on about the need to be nicer to customers for a while, but there's nothing like a threat to profits to force some concrete action. The retention arrangement won't apply until the end of June, so looks to have been announced in haste, but at least it shows willing.
One could quibble about the level of retention: £3,600 for a company that made £66,000 profit per house last year looks low. But the principle is surely sound. Why should the customer pay full whack before the builder has delivered what it promised?
Indeed, the government could make retention clauses obligatory for all housebuilders that wish to take part in help to buy. Rivals, who all blame Persimmon and Fairburn for spoiling a good party, would hate that. But why not? Help to buy, by rights, should be cancelled on economic grounds but, if the government really is wedded to the scheme until 2021, at least attach a few protections for customers.
Forget the relatively cheerful Brexit update from Lord Wolfson, chief executive of Next. He's probably right that consumers are "numb to the daily swings in the political debate" and are declining to be alarmed by Brexit uncertainty, but he was speaking only about his retailing world. Even a pro-Brexit boss might have a different take if he were building motor cars.
Instead, the provocative material in Wolfson's always-lively dispatch to shareholders was about rents in shops. For landlords, the analysis will read as a nightmare beyond any Brexit-induced terrors.
Next modelled annual 5% cuts in market rents from 2022 into the middle distance, meaning 2034, at which point £100 of today's rent would become £41. Is a 59% decline plausible? It's a scenario, not a forecast, stressed Wolfson. But, yes, 5% a year must be credible for a couple of reasons.
First, like-for-like sales fell 8.5% in Next stores last year, which has become the norm. All retailers would seek to reset their fixed overheads in that climate. Second, Next is succeeding in that effort. It secured rent reductions of 29% on the leases it renewed last year and expects more of the same this year.
Can't the beleaguered landlords switch their over-rented shops into offices or flats? Wolfson gave that popular argument short shrift by demonstrating that, once you include conversion costs, the real rental floor lies lower than assumed. Besides, on retail parks, which is where many Next shops are found, there is no demand for offices.
We have grown used to hearing dire warnings about rents from struggling retailers – Debenhams and so on. But Next, boasting same-again pretax profits of £723m with the help of its huge online operation, is different. It is not pleading for lower shop rents. Rather, it is expecting them to be delivered by the simple operation of market forces. "We do not have too much space, we have too much rent, rates and service charges," says Wolfson.
The stock market already values many retail landlords at 50% of their supposed asset value, so the direction of travel described by Wolfson will not come as fresh news to investors. But are 50% valuations low enough? Read Wolfson's analysis and you would not think so.